Help...I always feel so needy when in this group. I am looking for a pattern to knit an 'animal print' afghan. Tried googling but no luck...if someone could just point me in the right direction.
Thanks again, Carol
Hi Carol,
What kind of animal are you looking for?
Hugs,
Nora
Are you looking for something like a leopard-skin pattern? Or a pattern with animal 'pictures'? There are kits around for Noah's ark afghans, would that work?
Michelle
Stella
Stella
Animal skin type print....not necesarrily an animal....
Carol
This isn't free, but I bought the Special Effects machine knitting book from Artika Designs, and I'm quite pleased with the animal prints. There's 2 different sizes of zebra, 3 different sizes of leopard, 2 different size dalmation dog spots, 2 different size cow spots, giraffe, tiger, and some other patterns like woodgrain and camouflage. The repeats run 8-40 stitches wide and up to 100 rows in length, requiring mixing different colors of yarns to get the effect shown in the samples. The tiger has stripes and goes from orange to white like a tiger does from its back to belly then back to orange like it's a single tiger pelt.
The web site is here:
Leah
That's what I want....only I've sold all my knitting machines so I'm back to just hand knitting...
Carol
When working MK patterns by hand, I just remember that I'm working in stockinette and purl the even rows, and read the rows in the pattern book just like I would a HK pattern, making sure to read from left to right on one row then right to left on the next row. I heard people talk so much about converting from HK to MK, that I realized nothing could stop me from doing the reverse :-).
Leah
If you're looking for animal skin print, couldn't you just pick out your desired colours and work them in random or regular intervals (like intarsia, I guess) to get the effect? Sor tof a polka-dot or striped effect? Depending on what colours you want, some of the variegated yarns might even work.
Michelle
SOCK yarns come in animal prints.... I've actually GOT Zebra, leopard, flamingo, etc..... JM2C, Noreen
REALLY!!?? I *have* to find some of that!
Michelle
OPAL sock yarn!! HTH, Noreen I've got tiger print too!
I went looking and couldn't find an online shop with the tiger in stock. boo.
Michelle
eBay has lots of it. I happened to get mine before it went out of stock at my fave sock yarn shop, which for the life of me, I can't think of the url for... Hugs, Noreen
Thank you, Stella!
Michelle
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